Wormaldia praemissa Cockerell 1916 (finger-net caddisfly)

Insecta - Trichoptera - Philopotamidae

Alternative combination: Dolophilus praemissus

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1916. Some American fossil insects. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 51:89-106

Belongs to Wormaldia according to S. I. Melnitsky and V. D. Ivanov 2005

See also Cockerell 1916

Sister taxa: Wormaldia advenaria, Wormaldia aequalis, Wormaldia angularia, Wormaldia cercifurcata, Wormaldia cercilonga, Wormaldia congenera, Wormaldia contigua, Wormaldia cretacea, Wormaldia denticulata, Wormaldia diplobifurca, Wormaldia longaeva, Wormaldia media, Wormaldia myanmari, Wormaldia nasticentia, Wormaldia pheromonia, Wormaldia pobeda, Wormaldia praecursor, Wormaldia resina, Wormaldia squamosa, Wormaldia sukatshevae, Wormaldia transversa, Wormaldia vlipla

Type specimen: USNM 62001, a forewing. Its type locality is Coffee bluff amber, Hardin County, which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in the Coffee Sand Formation of Tennessee.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Coffee bluff amber, Hardin County

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